As was presented elsewhere on this website, the NAWAPA program, if seen correctly, represents the choice to take responsibility for the destiny of all life on Earth, and it is a foretaste of what is yet to come, the managed extension of life into the rest of our solar system and beyond, a future that can only be ushered in by man. This relationship of man to nature was known to Vernadsky as the Noosphere. On this occasion, we shall investigate further this relationship, as it is expressed in the development of the Arctic.